Display-box.



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DISPLAY-BOX.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 714,855, dated December 1902- Application filed April 21, 1902. Serial No. 103.838- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Yrk,borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in display-boxes, and more particularly to devices for removably attaching a lid or cover thereto, the object being to provide means whereby a lid or cover, preferably made of transparent or translucent material, may be easily and readily attached to or detached from the body of a box, said means consisting of a hinge either permanently or removably attached to said lid and adapted to be clamped to the box-body.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a box havinga lid or cover attached thereto in accordance with my invention, the lid or cover being opened. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one corner of the box, showing thelid or cover closed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 8 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a View of the lid or cover detached. Figs. 6 and 7 show a modified form of the hinge adapted for use in connection with boxes already provided with an outer cover or top, whereby the latter may be supported in an inclined position. Figs. 8 and 9 show the hinge adapted to support the inner or additional cover in an inclined position; and Fig. 10 is a perspective view of a modified form of the hinge, whereby the same may be clamped to the cover as well as to the body of the box. 7

Referring to the drawings, 11 represents a box made of any desired size and shape and of wood,pasteboard,metal, glass, or other suitable material,and consistsof thefrontand rear sides 12 13, the ends 14, and the base or bottom 15, and without permanent top or cover. To the rear side 13 is detachably secured the lid 16, which may also be made of any desired material,bu t preferably consists of a transparent or translucent panel 17, surrounded and inclosed by a metal frame 18, the size of the lid depending, of course, upon the size of the box to which it is applied. T the metal frame 18 of this lid are secured the sleeves 19, each adapted to receive one portion of the hinges, each of said hinges being preferably made of a single piece of wire and bent to form a horizontal arm 20 to be received within the sleeve 19, then bent downwardly to form the vertical arm 21, then upwardly to form the arm 22, then downwardly again to form the arm 23, the two arms 21 and 22 being preferably in close contact and practically forming one member of the hinge and somewhat separated from the arm 23, between which latter and said arms 2]. 22 is clamped the side 13 of the box-body, the clampingarms having suificient tension to hold the hinge and lid in position. By pulling upwardly on the lid, however, the hinges may be detached from the side 13, thus permitting the lid to be attached and detached when desired.

To the vertical arms 20 21 may be soldered or otherwise secured the vertical sleeves 24 to receive the bent arms 25,carrying the panel 26, and which latter when the parts are in their proper positions may be utilized to support the lid 16 when open, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and which when the lid is detached from the box may be folded downwardly upon said lid, as illustrated in Fig. 5, for convenience in packing and shipping. As such panel is illustrated and described in Letters Patent granted to me February 12, 1901, and numbered 667,815, and the construction and arrangement thereof well known to those skilled in the art, no detail description of the same is here necessary.

In Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings is illustrated a portion of a box having an outer lid or cover 27, in which case the horizontal arm of the hinge may be extended upwardly, as illustrated at 28, forming a supporting-arm for said outer lid, the extreme end 29 of the arm 28 being bent around to engage with said outer lid when the same is raised, the latter in turn supporting the inner or transparent lid 17 when the same is opened.

Instead of supporting the outer lid 27, as above described, the same may be allowed ICQ to open to its full extent, as illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9, the horizontal arm 20 of the hinge being bent upwardly, as illustrated at 30, to extend back of the inner or transparent lid 17 and support the same in its open position. Again, instead of soldering or otherwise securing the sleeve 19 permanently to the metal frame 18 it may be provided with the clamping-arms 31 32, as illustrated in Fig. 10, whereby it will be understood that the hinge will be clamped to the lid as well as to the box-body, this construction and arrangement allowing a lid to be detached at any time and another substituted therefor.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a display-box, the combination with a box-body, of a lid having sleeves secured thereto and hinges connecting said lid and body, each of said hinges being constructed of wire and bent to form the horizontal arm 20 fitting within said sleeve, then downwardly forming the vertical arm 21, then upwardly forming the arm 22, then downwardly again forming the arm 28, the arms 21 22 and 23 embracing the vertical side of said body and removably holding the lid thereto, substantially as described.

2. In a display-box, the combination with a box-body,of a lid, and hinges, each of which is constructed of 'wire and secured to said lid and provided with an arm adapted to support said lid when in its open adjustment, and with vertical clamping-arms, adapted to fit over the side of said body and detachably secure the lid thereto, substantially as described.

3. In a display-box, the combination with a box-body, of a lid, and hinges, each of the latter being secured to said lid and provided with vertical clamping-arms to fit over the side of said body and detachably hold the lid thereto, and with sleeves to receive and support panel-arms, substantially as described. Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 17th day of April, A. I). 1902.

PHILIP A. BECKER. Witnesses:

M. VAN NORTWICK, GEORGE COOK. 

